All right, so I added the second chapter. I worked on it a lot so I would like to hear your opinions.
I want to thank again to LANIKI for the nice comment.

Also, The song "Small change girl" made me inspired. I recommend on hearing this song while reading the chapter.

Chapter 2

While she was sitting in the taxi that took her back home, she couldn't stop thinking about the weird interview. What had she done wrong? And maybe it isn't even her fault? Maybe this House should learn some manners and how to communicate with human-beings? Shouldn't he be nice- at least as a doctor, if not as a person? The thoughts made her frustrated but she couldn't stop them. They came into her mind like water in a river- one after another, in continuity.
She closed her eyes and opened them again- breathing air into the lungs, trying to breath regularly, deeply. She couldn't do that during the interview.
Some romantic and silly song played in the radio. She thought automatically about Adam. The song talked about how much she loves him, bla bla, yada yada.
It felt the same with Adam. He loved her in the way she didn't want him to. She hated the perfection of this relationship. She felt as if she lived in a stupid, cheap romantic movie about the perfect couple. She was looking for the opportunities to break this perfection, whether by a fight or by saying awful and terrible things- just to feel human for one second. She couldn't breath one moment without being criticized by him- he didn't do it on purpose or because of evilness- he didn't even really criticized her, but she felt his eyes on her all the time. She couldn't make any mistakes; she had to be perfect all the time. He almost adored her, she thought bitterly. She was the last person on the world to adore. He probably doesn't even know about all the frustration that accumulated inside her. Suddenly she felt awful- she felt that everything in her life doesn't work out as she wanted it to. She believed that running away from her hometown would only help, but she came to another place powerlessness. All her past's burdens never left her. There wasn't one day she hasn't thought about the pain that buried inside her, about the fact that she can't handle this, she cant come over it. Was it the right choice, to leave that terrible place, to run away from it? Maybe she should have stayed there forever; maybe that was her fate...
She didn't want to come back, not to her old place, not to her current place and not to her boyfriend. She must be nuts- how can she, a garbage-girl, even think about dumping such a perfect, amazing boyfriend? He must be every woman's dream- funny, smart, handsome, spoiling, caring and loving. He also has money and a house, and he is running his own business- but still, she couldn't tell him everything. She discussed with him only about superficial things, that don't really matter to her. Maybe that's why their relationship holds on for so long- they didn't deal with anything.

Without noticing, the taxi's driver stopped the car in front of her house. She awoke from her thoughts and paid him quickly. She got out of the cab and walked slowly to her apartment. Luckily, she thought, it was to soon for Adam to come home- he returns home only around 17:00 o'clock. It is only 12:10 o'clock now, so she has 4 hours to be alone. She needed that. She unlocked the door and opened it, entering into the house. She collapsed into the couch with all of her body, immersing into her thoughts again.

Maybe I am just expecting for the worse thing to happen. Maybe he will hire me.
Why? Because you made a scene?
But maybe it worked. Maybe he saw something about me.
What? Lik
e you did?

Alice raised her head suddenly, surprised by the honesty of her thoughts. Had she seen something about him? She raised her body a little, stretching her hand over the stereo's remote control. She pressed on the radio button and waited.
Small change girl played now. She felt herself softening because of the beautiful and the sad song. The exciting voice carried her away in her thoughts and she closed her eyes.

He is special, that House. Not a regular type. Not just an antipathetic or a mad person either. He is just... different. She wanted to know why. She wanted to find out what so interests her about him. She wanted to get into his heart, to figure him out. She felt that he is like an unsolved mystery that she has to solve.

You can't know after 5 minutes of acquaintance.
I can. I know that it is something else. Sometimes a person should count on his intuitions.It is true- her intuitions were right all the time. She can tell how a person feels; she can tell what is he going through. Her instincts were the only thing she counted on since ever, and now she knew- by them- that he was different.


She can make the birds and bees
get down on their little knees
she can whisper to the breeze
and make her tear the bark off trees

She slowly fall asleep. She felt the reality transform into a dream.

She can make a fog horn ring
she can make the mountains swing
she will make you clip your wing
she can teach your tears to sing

She wished she could be someone's small change girl. She wished to be someone's whole world.

She's just a small change girl
but she's a world to me

She can turn her flesh to steel
but she can't get her scars to heal
she can make you think she's real
she can make a diamond peel

She opened her eyes. The words were too much painful. She could feel her flesh scratched again, the painful burning. She had always been keeping herself away from everyone. She had always been so nice and friendly to everyone- everybody liked her because of her being so helpful, caring and friendly. She never expressed her pain- but in songs she had written.
The only thing that was good in her childhood was the music. As a little girl she already sang in the school's choir, and as a teenager she joined into the music department of her high school and learned how to play the guitar. She learned how to canalize her pain to songs and stories. It was her whole world- a whole world that contained her suffering, her scars... no one knew about this world. Everyone told her that by her beautiful voice she would be famous and loved. But she knew that it wasn't her right direction in life- she wanted to be a doctor since always. She wanted to help people, to save their lives, to fix their physical pain...

An aggressive and intensive knocking on the door woke her up from her sleep. She woke up panicky, jumping out of the couch, looking around. For a split second she couldn't remember where she was. She walked to the door quickly, glancing at her swatch- who could it possibly be? Adam is at work now... its only 16:00 o'clock. She peeked in the eyepiece of the door and was surprised to see House standing outside her home, peeking as well into the eyepiece. She could notice his brown cane that he held in his right hand.
She opened the door half a way and glanced at him. He looked at her sharply, most of all at her face, at her eyes. She disconnected their eye contact by lowering her look.

"Doctor House." She said. She couldn't look at him because of the embarrassment she had felt- she thought about him a minute ago!

"I can wait outside, if you like. " He told her cynically, but didn't stop peering at her. She glanced at him for a second and opened the door, letting him in. she raised her face and looked at him when he came closer to her in order to get into the house- he peered directly into her eyes, examining her facial features, her nose, her lips. She peered at him back, examining him as well, looking on his handsome face, and they could feel for those few moments the tension that was created between them. It was like the time had frozen- they looked at each other, feeling the tension, feeling each other's breath. Alice thought that it wasn't exactly a sexual tension- it was most of all a tension between two people connected in an unexpressed-in-words connection. She felt a little dizzy so she moved and he passed her, directing into the salon. He sat on the couch, putting down his cane near him. She rubbed her face, trying to encourage the blood to stream into it, and walked to him, trying to understand what is going on.

"How did you get here? " she asked.

"By a car. Amazing invention. "

"No. I mean... how did you find me? "

"The address is written in your CV. "

Of course, you silly Alice.

"Can I offer you something to drink? " she asked mannerly.

"A coffee will do well. "

Alice went to the kitchen, feeling now an excitement burning in her. She couldn't understand why- but she was happy that he was here. She made two glasses of hot drink- a coffee and a tea- and brought them to the salon, putting them carefully on the little table that stood between the two couches. She sat in front of him.

"You moved in recently? " He asked her, taking the glass in his hands and drinking it's contain.

"Yes. Why? "

"Even the hospital feels more alive than this place. " he told her, looking around and examining the place.

"We will add more furniture soon. " She answered shortly. She didn't like talking about Adam, and in fact- didn't want to.

"We? "

"My boyfriend and I. "

She bit her lip, trying to think about something to talk about. Finally she asked him: "Why are you here? "

"I am in the middle of the process of hiring you. "

Her heart started beating fast at once. She felt like someone injected her an injection of adrenaline into the blood. "Really? "

She noticed that it came out too excited, so she toned down herself. "Why? What has changed since 12 o'clock? "

"Hm... " House wondered at loud and she could guess that a mocking answer is on the way, probably phrased right now in his brain.

"12,458 people died, 3,097 women gave birth... "

"I mean, " Alice said, "Why do you want to hire me now? "

"Because I want to. " He said it like it was obvious.

She remained on silence, trying to think about subjects to talk about. She wanted him to stay.

"Come in 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. You will get the equipment you need there. "

"Okay. "

"Any questions? " He raised one suspecting eyebrow.

"Should I have some? " She asked in defense.

He chuckled a little. "Fine, " he finished his coffee and put the empty glass on the table, "I have to go. I have a dying patient. " He stood up and began walking to the door, holding his cane. Alice stood up too, walking to the door with him. She opened it for him and he looked at her in the last time for today. He began walking to his red, big car when suddenly she called: "House. "

He turned around and looked at her.

"Thanks. " She said, nodding her head.

He nodded once and turned to his car again. She closed the door, feeling the excitement burning in her. She felt like screaming, like calling everybody on the planet she knew and say: "I got it! I got the right damn job! "
But she couldn't tell what was more exciting- the fact that she got the job or the fact that she is going to work with him.

The phone suddenly rang. Alice answered it.

"Hello? "

"Hey baby! " Adam called happily. By the noises she could guess that he is on the way back home.

"Hey. "

"So? "

"I got it! " she screamed happily, and he laughed.

"See? I told you so. "

"I am so excited. "

"You should be. Hope you are ready. "

"For what? "

"What does that mean? I am taking you to a dinner. We should celebrate! "

"Yeah... you are right. "

"Get dressed. "

"All right. " she hang up the call and stood right in her place, breathing, trying to realize.
She couldn't wait for tomorrow, but even more than that- she couldn't wait to see House again. She felt like this is going to be interesting.